TNT Basic 1.31 review
DownloadTNT Basic allows anyone, regardless of previous experience, to make games for the Macintosh.
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TNT Basic allows anyone, regardless of previous experience, to make games for the Macintosh.
Its amazingly easy to use development environment allows you to compose all your game's graphics, sounds, music and code with simplicity and ease.
"But I Can't Program!": I suppose this is where you expect us to say "You don't need to - you just click a few buttons and your game's ready!".
Sorry, but not with TNT Basic. Games produced with such "click and play" creator kits are extremely limited in their functionality, there are after all only so many different games you can make by clicking a few buttons.
Games produced by such tools tend to all have the same look and feel. You'll never create anything special with your hands tied and we want you to create something unique and special. TNT Basic gives you complete freedom to create, and it's so easy to use, that you'll wonder why anyone would use underpowered point and click game creation interfaces in the first place.
You Can Program! In TNT Basic you write in a simplified beginners' programming language called basic. It's incredibly easy to learn and TNT Basic's on-line help system will assist you all the way from your first steps to your finished game.
Here are some key features of "TNT Basic":
16 bit graphics (Over 32, colours on screen!)
Lightning fast sprite engine (supports anti-aliasing and translucency!)
Stereo panning sound support
Advanced music engine (supports MP3 and many tracker music formats including MOD, MAD, MIDI, SoundTracker and OctaMed)
TCP/IP and AppleTalk game networking - play your friends over the internet!
Build standalone games which don't need TNT Basic to run
Load and save hi-scores and saved games
Automatic joystick, mouse, keyboard and speech input support
Integrated development environment, manage everything from code to music from one application!
Syntax colouring, your code is coloured automatically to make it easier to read
Integrated help, just highlight a command in your code and hit cmd-? to find out more about it
Mac OS X compatible.
What's New:
Fixed left control key not working with the 'pressed' command under OS X
Fixed sounds not loading from .tbproj files
Fixed image offsets presets not working for top left, top right, bottom left and bottom right corners
Fixed 'file exists' command leaving files open and making them undeletable
Fixed memory leak in map loading
Fixed 'as string' command not working when a precision is passed
Corrected misleading error message that resulted from trying to build an app from a project containing resources with ids lower than 128.
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